News Round-Up
6 May 2024
As Prime Minister, Theresa May tied the country to Net Zero shortly before she left office in 2019. Since then she has raked in nearly £3m from speaking and books. Is there a link, asks Alex Kriel.
In matters of Catholic dogma the Holy Father is deemed infallible, but when it comes to more earthly matters surrounding climate change, Pope Francis is talking through his Pontifical Posterior, says Chris Morrison.
Rishi Sunak has become engaged in a row with the Climate Change Committee as the advisers claimed his watering down of Net Zero measures will increase the risk of Britain failing to meet its 2050 target.
"The idea that Net Zero can be achieved by any means short of a command economy combined with a drastic decline in standards of living is a blatant falsehood," says Cambridge's Professor Michael Kelly. And for what?
If programmable CBDCs are introduced, your own digital financial footprint will be used to control you, as even democratic countries slip towards Chinese-style social credit systems, warns Laura Dodsworth.
'Eco-conscious' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took a seven-car convoy around a single block to attend the World Mental Health Day Festival in New York City on Tuesday.
Supposedly it's all a big 'conspiracy theory' that by 2050 we shall be living in mud and grass huts, but the UN has just released a Net Zero report calling for a global move away from concrete and steel to mud and bamboo.
TV naturalist Chris Packham is threatening legal action to prevent Rishi Sunak's watering down of Net Zero. But the Climate Change Act is so vague that this is highly unlikely to succeed, says Dr David McGrogan.
Dramatic new and improved evidence points to temperatures on Earth rising before an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, rather afterwards and being caused by it, according to scientists.
Fears that Rishi Sunak's recent watering down of green targets will economically harm the U.K. are unfounded, says Ross Clark. If anything, it will do the opposite.
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